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Product details

  • Audio CD (24 Oct 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Samadhi Sound
  • ASIN: B000B8GUGO
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,418 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wonderful World
2. Darkest Birds
3. The Banality Of Evil
4. Atom and Cell
5. A History Of Holes
6. Snow Borne Sorrow
7. The Day The Earth Stole Heaven
8. Serotonin
9. The Librarian

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Probably the most commercial release that David Sylvian has ever been involved with, Nine Horses still manages to sound unlike any other album out there at the moment. Breaking boundaries, fusing styles and yet delivering beautiful pop melodies and stunning vocals on songs that Sylvian fans everywhere are bound to fall in love with. Nine Horses brings together Sylvian, his brother Steve Jansen (ex-Japan), and the well respected Burnt Friedman and they have created a suite of remarkably poignant songs that are part social commentary and part self-analysis. Sylvian and his collaborators have never sounded better nor the material more immediate. Other guest contributors include: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stina Nordenstam, Arve Henriksen and many more. Samadhi Sound. 2005.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Back on form and better than ever., 27 Jun 2006
By P. Irvine (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
Having been disappointed by the Good Son remix album and I was worried that this might also be a case of a lot of less talented people trampling over David's talent, I guess I shouldn't have really worried though as he has always been brilliant at picking collaborators in the past like Jon Hassell, Robert Fripp and Holger Czukay and here he does it again. This music is beatiful and deep, there are no stand out songs because they're all classics. I was a bit unsure about the idea of him working with electonica artist at first but the sound perfectly compliments his voice which is on top form and now I am a total convert, in fact I've even started exploring electronica as a result and bought albums by Boards of Canada and Marconi Union among others! Apparently this is intended to be a one-off record which is a terrible shame as it would be great to hear how Nine Horses would develop and unlike the Good Son shows how working with the right collaborators really adds a lot to his music. Snow Borne Sorrow is definitely David's best album since Secrets of the Beehive.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, 24 Jun 2006
By Andrew (Macclesfield, UK) - See all my reviews
I don't agree with some reviews - this may not be an album you will instantly love - I didn't. But that's not a bad thing. Albums that I instantly like don't often challenge, I soon get bored of them and stop listening to them after a short time.

But I've been listening to Snow Borne Sorrow for a few months now and it keeps getting better for me. This is a beautiful, beautiful album.

It is made for shutting out the rest of the world and listening in headphones.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Music that drifts through the mist., 20 Nov 2005
By Jonathan James Romley (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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I'm not as ardent a devotee of Sylvian's work as some of the previous commentators, finding much of his work a bit bland and sterile. The only album of his that I've truly adored is 1987's Secrets of the Beehive, which felt like a complete piece of work, and featured some of his strongest songwriting to date. His last solo offering, Blemish, had some great moments, but for the most part, I just couldn't get past Derek Bailey's awful improvised guitar work or that feeling of meandering excess. Fear that Nine Horses, his new project with Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman, would be more of the same can be laid to rest during that gorgeous opening track, Wonderful World, which effortlessly blends elements of jazz, pop and ambient trip-hop to sublime effect, capturing a hazy and wavering sense of dulled melancholy that will continue throughout the album.

For me, this is really the best thing Sylvian has done since Beehive, managing to push the musical boundaries in terms of production and arrangement, but also remembering to include some sweet melodies and the occasional hook. It's also an album that holds together exceedingly well, with each of the songs building to a collective momentum, with no sign of filler or fodder getting in the way of the greats... which is really the whole album!! The combination of the different styles works well together, whilst as lead vocalist, Sylvian is at his most resigned, offering up vocals in a combination of dejected mumbles and that mournful croon, whilst the addition of backing vocalist Stina Nordenstam, as well as the usual Sylvian/Jansen collaborators like Ryuichi Sakamoto and Arve Henriksen (amongst others), tip the album off the scales into the realms of the lush, ambient, dream-pop of bands like Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros and late-period Talk Talk.

Musically, the diverse influences are used well, with Sylvian and co. managing to create music that is atmospheric (building to a mood and sustaining a feeling over generally long five-minute-plus song structures), but is also easy to listen to. As other commentators have noted, Snow Borne Sorrow is great a night-time record, one that captures that feeling of drifting, as all thoughts and feeling blur into a cacophony of noise before we drift off into sleep. It's very much in tune with past Sylvian endeavours, the previously noted Secrets of the Beehive, the good songs off Dead Bees On a Cake, and the songs from Brilliant Trees that drew less on 80's style production and more on free-form jazz (The Ink in the Well and Nostalgia spring to mind, for me). I've heard that it also brings to mind certain elements of the Rain Tree Crow project, though, having never heard that, I can't really comment. Regardless, Snow Borne Sorrow is magnificent stuff... a record that has its own style and creates an atmosphere that is fascinating and ripe for exploration.

As I said before, for me, there are no real "best songs", with the album pretty much flowing comfortably from one song to the next. However, if I was forced to pick favourites for some kind of lush-pop-compilation, then certainly Wonderful World, Darkest Birds, The Banality of Evil and The Librarian would all be potential candidates. Despite its flaws, it would seem that Blemish offered a new turning point for Sylvian... and, with that truculent bombardment of woe and minimalist experimentation out of his system he's been able to return to the great songwriting and performance style of recording that he'd been hinting at for so many years, creating an album that works perfectly from beginning to end, and seems to present yet another (possible) direction for his future career.

The production and overall performance of Nine Horses is excellent, with the keyboards, bass and drums merging perfectly with Friedman's programming and dense "sound-environment" work, whilst those backing vocals from Nordenstam are really just the icing on the cake. If you're a fan of Sylvian's previous work (whether with Japan, Rain Tree Crow, as a solo artist or from various collaborations) then you'll probably have this already. For anyone else, Snow Borne Sorrow offers a set of jazz-tinged ambient pop songs that are sure to appeal to anyone who has heard and appreciated albums like Laughing Stock by Talk Talk, Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac albums, Scott Walker's Climate of Hunter, Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, or the work of artists as disparate as Tom Waits and Portishead.

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5.0 out of 5 stars snow borne sorrow
can't recommend enough. If get Sylvian, Japan or similar you MUST have this. Chilled, yet topical, this is the sort of magic that drives evil Robbie Williams away! Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2006 by jimmy the cat

4.0 out of 5 stars a great offering
no need to repeat what has already been said , the 4 and 5 stars say it all.from the reviews ive read here these are sylvian fans ,so if you are a fan you know you are going to... Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2006 by beecee

5.0 out of 5 stars Intangible Imagery
David Sylvian never ceases to amaze me with his brilliance in compostion and lyrics.

I have to say Serotonin is the best song on this release, however all of them are... Read more
Published on 11 May 2006 by W. Masters

4.0 out of 5 stars Some tracks approach or pass his best work
Two of my musical heroes (Sylvian and Kate Bush) both released new albums this past year... In their own ways both speak of loss, themes both have visited before, but what a... Read more
Published on 6 May 2006 by Illicium

4.0 out of 5 stars probably Sylvian's best work
This is a wonderfully crafted record that is probably Sylvian's best work. Sylvian's return to form was initiated on his last solo effort - Blemish. Read more
Published on 28 April 2006 by peter inzane

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last
I had kind of given up on Sylvian ,yes he touched brilliance many times since leaving Japan and going solo, but and its a big But - Would he ever be able to string enough... Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2006 by J. C. Mayes

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful piece of work
I have to thank Brotha for pointing me to Nine Horses. As I was going though his collection and saw some Sylvian, he said: If you like Sylvian try Nine Horses you will like... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2006 by Astro

5.0 out of 5 stars A Complex sound structure....
This band name or more correctly musical collective is the tile for a one off musical collaboration between David Sylvian and his brother and long time musical partner Steve... Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2006 by Milt Ingarfield

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime and beautiful
I'll keep this short. This album compares extremely favourably with the very best of David Sylvian's work; I know that some will feel that this could even be his best... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2006 by Mr. S

5.0 out of 5 stars A 'Snow Borne Sorrow' of emotion and pleasure!
As with any art form ~ like when one looks at a painting ~ you enjoy it for what it gives you at the moment in time ~ whether or not you choose to revisit it depends only on... Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2005 by Gary Witherford

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